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Court says "Millennium Bomber" sentence too light
Source: Reuters
Court says "Millennium Bomber" sentence too light
By Dan Levine
SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:26pm EDT
(Reuters) - A appeals court on Monday overturned the 22-year prison term of the "Millennium Bomber," saying it was too lenient, and sent the case back to a lower court for re-sentencing.
Ahmed Ressam was arrested in connection with a plot to detonate explosives at Los Angeles International Airport in 1999 and sentenced to a 22-year prison term plus five years of supervised release. But prosecutors appealed the sentence, imposed by a Seattle-based federal judge, as too lenient.
A split 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the sentence on Monday, the latest turn in a case that has been litigated for years. The appeals court voted 7-4 that Ressam's prison term was much shorter than that called for by U.S. sentencing guidelines.
The ruling largely upholds an earlier opinion by a three-judge 9th Circuit panel in 2010.
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By Dan Levine
SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:26pm EDT
(Reuters) - A appeals court on Monday overturned the 22-year prison term of the "Millennium Bomber," saying it was too lenient, and sent the case back to a lower court for re-sentencing.
Ahmed Ressam was arrested in connection with a plot to detonate explosives at Los Angeles International Airport in 1999 and sentenced to a 22-year prison term plus five years of supervised release. But prosecutors appealed the sentence, imposed by a Seattle-based federal judge, as too lenient.
A split 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the sentence on Monday, the latest turn in a case that has been litigated for years. The appeals court voted 7-4 that Ressam's prison term was much shorter than that called for by U.S. sentencing guidelines.
The ruling largely upholds an earlier opinion by a three-judge 9th Circuit panel in 2010.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/12/us-usa-bomber-sentencing-idUSBRE82B0WH20120312
